12 Quotes by Alan Mak

Some new actors are focused on whether they do a good job delivering their lines when they're acting, but scenes without dialogue are harder because you have no lines to portray that you're doing something. Jay Chou didn't have this problem. There were a lot of scenes without dialogue in the movie, but he has a very strong imagination. He would try to figure out what's the situation now.

Most people going to Blockbuster and other video stores don't have any idea what they want to rent. They are just browsing.

Greenspan and the Fed are trying to slow down consumer spending. It's hitting the retail sector across the board, the big multiples especially,

I think all the filmmakers in Hong Kong are influenced by John Woo.

I think overall the outlook for next year was particularly bullish.

Consumers start to take on these products and embrace them, and these products start to gain traction in the marketplace,

could potentially be a very large revenue stream for them.

Right now, they tend to have a different customer base. But there is bound to be a convergence. Eventually we will have substantial overlap.

For John Woo, it is quite difficult to make a movie in Hollywood in his own style. Because Hollywood is based on a producer system, it is difficult for a director to express himself using his own style of filmmaking.